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Food & Agriculture
Can regenerative agriculture reduce the environmental harm of palm oil production?
A new kind of agriculture that addresses the double-edge sword of soil degradation and climate change could replace chemically-intensive monoculture oil palm plantations. But can independent smallholder farmers be convinced to adopt regenerative techniques at scale? A coalition of actors including Danone, L'Oréal, Mars, Musim Mas and SNV is exploring the concept in North Sumatra.
Nepal’s environment is plagued by toxic contamination with heavy metals and arsenic, removing them by conventional methods requires high-cost technologies.
Picking wild morel mushrooms brought big money to mountain villages in the Indian Himalayas. But higher spring temperatures and low rainfall may mean an end to the lucrative harvest.
Food & Agriculture
Old and new solutions pave way to net-zero emissions farming: Studies
New and emerging technologies could pave the way to net-zero emissions agriculture in the next two decades, using robotics, electric vehicles, improved crop varieties and distributed monitoring.
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